Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17

a few photographs and letters froSna ihlo,
On the other hand tens of thousannSgaa s
homes waited for news. Parents a mus os
"Twenty thousand killed! wonder saving a
boy was among them" Faintins II J, op
away in postotfices and telegraph !aeal
Both the ears of God filled with tiNa o
and agonies of kindred waiting fo ors sou
or dropping under the announcem. news
bad news. Speak, swamps of the GU, Of
hominy, and midnight lagoons. an nics "a
RATS of the Mississippi, and eunboa .a me-
fore Nicksburg, and woods of AM. Ans De-
and tell tell TO all the mountn ni,as'an
valleys and rivers and lakes of tha NV. aad
and south, jeremaids of war timos nv "
have never been syllabled! nat
Besides that domestic pertubat;o,
inconsistencies of those days put the sw saa
domesticity of to-day. The only CAM, ,"ses
you now ever sit at is the one kindlppiI:'s
stove or furnace or hearth. Instead ~
half ration of salt pork, a repast luTrs;.. =
because partaken of by loving family o i,a9s
and in secret condolences. Oh, now Gt'Sss
who those letters were for, the Letters rs ~
the young soldier, took SO long in s sos,
tent to write, and that you were 50 wv, W..
ticular to put in the mail without ons F pat
ing you lest you be leased by vonr co oss'
rades. God spared you to get back Vv ~,
though the old people have gone Won b a-a
home of your own construction, and ros
often contract those awful absences IVY ~.
filial and brotherly and loverly baa ,au
breaks with your present residence, wb itl.
is the dearest place you will find this s sS.
Of Heaven. The place where your cb;l
dren were born is the place where w,
want to die. To write the figures of lSiS
set up your crystals, crystals of tears, r.
write the figures of 1887 stand up sonv
members OF your household, fuurss =.
rosy cheeks and iiaXen hair, if / can VI VI
them to stand still long enough. So
Contrast also the religious opportuni,;.,
of twenty years ago with now. Often NJ
the march from Sunday morn till MON.
or commanded by officers who considersS
the name of God and Christ of no usa ~.
cept to swear by. Sometimes the drnm
head, the pulpit and you standing in hs.,
or cold, all the surroundings of milar
life having tendency to make you ract.
less. No privacy for prayer or Bible read.
ing. No sound or church bells. Sabbath,
spent far away from the place where von
were brought up.s Now. the choices
sanctnaries, easy pew, all Christian SIR.
roundings, the air full of God and Chris
and heaven and doxology. Three noun
tains lifting themselves into the holy ION
Mount Sinai laundering its law, Monnt
Calvary pleading the sacrifice, Noun,
Pisgah displaying the promised land.
Contrast the national condition: 1852
spending money by the millions in deyau.
tation of property and life; 1887. tbs
finances so reconstructed that all the stoci
gamblers of Wall street combined canpot
make national panic; 1862, surgeons Of
the land setting broken bones and am.
putating gangrened limbs ana! studyp,
gunshot fractures and inventing easy am.
balances for the wounded and dying; lsSi,
surgeons giving their attentions to those ii
casualty of agriculture, of commerce, O,
mechanical life, the rushing of ambulancs
through our streets, not suggesting battle
but quick relief of some one fallen in
peaceful industries; 1862, 100000 900 in.
habitants in this land; 1887, So, 900 OOp
1862, wheat, about 50, oOO, 900 bushels; lsST,
the wheat will be about 500, 900, 900 bushels
1862, Pacific coast five weeks from the
Atlantic; 1887, for three reasons, Union
Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Northern
Pacific, only seven days across. Look at
the long line of churches, universities
asylums, and houses with which, during
the last few years, this land has been
decorated.
But they shall come again, all the dssi
troops. We sometimes talk about earthy
military reviews, such as took place ID
Paris in the time of Marshal Ney, in Lon.
don in the time of Wellington and in our
own land, but what tame things compared
with the final review, when all the armies
of the ages shall pass for divine and an.
gelic inspection. st. John says the armies
of Heaven ride on white horses, and don't
know but many of the old cavalry horseso
earthly battle, that were wounded and
worn out in service, may have resurrection.
1t would be only fair that, raised up and
ennobled, they would be resurrected for The
grand review of the judgment day. !:
would not take any more power to recon.
struct their bodies than to reconstruct ours,
and L should be very glad to see them
among the white horses of apocalypse
vision. Hark to the trumpet blast, The
reveille of the last Judgment! They come
up. All the armies OF all lands and al
centuries, on which ever side they fought
whether for freedom or despotism, for the
right or the wrong. They come! IheT
come! Darius and Cyrus. and Sennach.
crib, and Joshua, and David, leading forth
the armies of scriptural times; Harnba!
and Hamilcar leading forth the armies Of
the Carthaginians; Victor Emmanuel and
Garibaldi leading on the armies Of tue
Italians: Tamerlane and Ghengis Khan
followed by the armies of Asia; Gustavus
Adolphus, and Ptolemy Philopater, and
Aerxes, and Alexander, and Semiramk
and Washington, leading battalion atsi
battalion. The dead American armies Of
l176 and 1872, and 100000 of northern
and southern dead in our civil war. Inc!
come up. They pass on in review. lhs
100000 fallen in Napoleonic battlest TN
l2,O00,00O Germans fallen in the Ihi!
Years War, the 10000 900 fallen in the WI
under Sesostris; the 100000 900 fallen in t.s
wars of Justinian; the $4,000, 900 fallenn
Jewish wars; the $4,000, 900 fallen in lis
crusades, the $4,000, 900 fallen in the van
with Saracens and Turks; the 35,o0o, ou.'
oOO men estimated to have fallen in ba''S
enough, according to one statistlclan,
they stood four abreast, to reach cIea
around the earth 442 times.
But We shall have time to see them p's
IN review before the throne of judgment.
the cavalrymen, the artillerymen, m'
spearmen, the Infantry, the sharpshoo's.ias,
the gunners, the sappers, the miners, W Nv
archers. the skirmishers, men of all colosi
OF all epaulets, of all standards OF y! ~
weaponry, Of all countries. Let the es..I
be especially balanced to hear their treaJ
Forward! Forward! Let the orchestra
the heavenly galleries play the gtsn'
march, Joined by all the ifers, drumln s;s
and military bands that ever sounded Wv
tory or defeat at Eylau or BorodlInIai, =,